Fairness is a key concept in social interactions and is influenced by intentionality considerations. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the neural correlates of fairness by focusing on responder behavior to unfair offers in an Ultimatum Game paradigm with conditions that differed in their intentionality constraints. Brain activity underlying rejection vs accept...

Better outcomes for psychiatric inpatients classified as paranoid rather than nonparanoid could be due to group differences in disability levels created by traditional classification approaches. Paranoid functioning, per se, may not predict good institutional outcomes. The authors retrieved community outcome data for 469 inpatients from 19 wards, a subsample of participants that had been previo...

Background: An earlier case-control study from Western Australia reported a protective effect of maternal folic acid supplementation during pregnancy on the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The present study tested that association.

Often efforts to change techniques or processes are met by “But its working, why change now?” Usually the impetous for change comes from someone who does not believe it is working. The organization may be producing products but is it producing them fast enough using sufficiently few resources with appropriate quality? In this issue of Strategic Software Engineering I want to explore what we mea...

The recent financial and economic crisis has raised major concerns in the public health community that death, illness and disability will rise in both rich and poor countries across the globe, and that the operation of health systems will be compromised both by increased demand for treatment and reduced health budgets. Such fears are supported by, among others, a wealth of epidemiological evide...

Quality can be defined as “a degree of excellence. In practice, we use testing as a measure of the outgoing quality of devices. The problem is that there is not a oneto-one correlation between test and quality. Just because a unit is tested doesn’t guarantee that it is defect-free. Similarly, “guaranteed-by-design” functionality, usually isn’t (with no offense intended to the incredibly talente...

So much depends upon a person’s point of view. If there’s anything that ties the 3 disparate lessons together today it is the fact that with God in the picture things are never quite what they seem. Springs of water in a desert – a new thing – new life where there was no life at all; a race where even someone in my physical shape is in the running as well as tiny babies with no teeth who are un...

Previous studies document that attractiveness predicts life outcomes, including well-being and social connectedness. This study investigates whether the attractiveness–outcomes link is especially strong in settings, such as many urban areas, that promote relationship constructions as a product of personal choice. This link may weaken in settings, such as many rural areas, that promote less volu...